apparitor
Noun
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Noun
apparitor (plural apparitors)
- (historical) An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
- Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world.
- A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
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